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Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 - Small Budget, Big Overclocker

By Vijay Anand - 6 Aug 2006

Synthetic Gaming Benchmarks - 3DMark06 and AquaMark3

Results - Futuremark 3DMark06

Focusing on gaming results, our expectations were on the mark with the 3.36GHz overclocked E6300 processor in 3DMark06's overall score where it did fare better than an X6800, but not by very much. This is because the test is primarily dependant on the graphics subsystem like many modern games. Peering in to the CPU's processing power in rendering workloads via software emulation, we can see that the overclocked E6300 is more than 30% speedier than the Athlon 64 FX-62 and the Core 2 Duo E6600, while still outgunning the X6800 by more than 8%.

Results - AquaMark3

Different game engines react to subsystem improvements in different ways. Unlike 3DMark06, AquaMark3 benefits from every boost in subsystem performance. As such, it scaled very well in both the overall rendering performance as well as the CPU performance score, which takes into consideration many platform parameters. At a 3.36GHz clock rate, 1920MHz PSB, 480MHz FSB and DDR2-980, it's no wonder that the E6300 netted a significant increase of 15 to 25 frames per second rendered against the comparisons.

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